Dove website news

7 Jul 2024	Great Bells of the British Isles
4 Jun 2024	Server upgrade
12 May 2024	New mapping functionality
4 May 2024	Database upgrade
6 Feb 2024	The Revd David L Cawley
26 Nov 2023	Welcoming Kye Leaver to the Dove Team
29 Sep 2023	Bell hanging types, tubular bell lengths, menu of truss and layout types
15 Feb 2023	Frame notes
28 Jan 2023	Derelict’ rings and ’No regular ringing
3 Dec 2022	Major update in the way frames are recorded
26 Aug 2022	Welcoming Neal Dodge to the Dove Team
3 Apr 2022	Frames information in the Dove Bell Register
24 Mar 2022	The Rev’d Dr John Baldwin
29 Jan 2022	Welcoming Lewis Benfield to the Dove Team
23 Nov 2021	Dove extended to include Church of England church bells not hung for full-circle ringing
25 Oct 2021	The former iOS Dove App
1 Oct 2021	Customised tower selections
4 Sep 2021	OS Map links
12 Jul 2021	Viewing rings by region and presence of semitone bells
8 Jun 2021	Dove extended to include Carillons of the British Isles
24 May 2021	Changes in the Dove Team
4 May 2021	Unlinked home page change notes
30 Mar 2021	Projects and overhauls brought into the new system
15 Mar 2021	Names of rings, towers and bells
18 Feb 2021	Improving the look of Dove’s Guide on different devices
7 Feb 2021	New data exchange with Felstead established
5 Feb 2021	The Church of England invests its bell interests in Dove’s Guide
5 Jan 2021	Links to affiliated association/society websites
1 Jan 2021	Dove’s Guide now contains new ways to look at bell data
24 Dec 2020	Roman Catholic Dioceses and Archdioceses
21 Dec 2020	New charting options
9 Dec 2020	The move of Dove’s Guide to its new home is complete!
8 Dec 2020	Advanced notice of outage
2 Dec 2020	Charting the results of a search by tenor weight
18 Oct 2020	New layout of towers and constituent rings; mouse hovering features
27 Sep 2020	ART Teaching Centres
20 Sep 2020	New county summary lists
8 Sep 2020	New map icons
14 Aug 2020	Launch of new mapping feature
2 Aug 2020	Another Milestone Reached in the Dove Project
7 Jul 2020	Dove updates during 7-18 Jul
17 Jun 2020	Email Issues Resolved
16 Jun 2020	Email Issues
1 Jun 2020	Ron Johnston
30 May 2020	Pause in Dove updates
23 May 2020	Scheduled Outage
14 May 2020	Postcodes (UK)
13 May 2020	Turning of Bells
9 May 2020	Additional Dove Steward
3 May 2020	pNBR Updates Today
29 Apr 2020	Postcodes (Ireland)
9 Mar 2020	URL Checking
8 Mar 2020	Additional S Glos / Bristol Diocese URLs
3 Mar 2020	Entry Removed
16 Feb 2020	Resumption of Dove Submissions
15 Feb 2020	Entry Removed
6 Nov 2019	Resumption of Dove Updates
28 Sep 2019	Dove update
31 Aug 2019	A Special New Tower
27 Aug 2019	A Problem Has Occurred
24 Aug 2019	Further Deletion
8 Aug 2019	Another service interruption
8 Aug 2019	In case you hadn’t noticed ...
11 Jul 2019	Service Interruption
12 Jun 2019	Update
5 Jun 2019	Affiliated Society URLs
3 May 2019	Today’s Goodies
13 Mar 2019	Grahamstown,SA
11 Feb 2019	Edition 11 Availabilty
25 Jan 2019	Availabilty
4 Jan 2019	Gone To Print
4 Jan 2019	Gone To Print
24 Dec 2018	Christmas 2018
18 Dec 2018	Edition 11 closed
7 Dec 2018	Edition11 Cut-off
6 Oct 2018	Multiple Saints
4 Oct 2018	Google Maps
8 Aug 2018	Interruption of service
23 Mar 2018	Ely DA: Huntingdon District
23 Mar 2018	British Summer Time
21 Mar 2018	Website Move
24 Feb 2018	Edition 11
16 Feb 2018	Back to normal
14 Feb 2018	Dove Updates
17 Nov 2017	Thanks
4 Nov 2017	Service resumed
1 Nov 2017	Interruption of Service
5 Oct 2017	iOS Dove App
30 Sep 2017	Home sought for Bound RWs
1 Aug 2017	Holiday period
27 Jun 2017	Interruption of Service
26 Jun 2017	Recent Updates
1 Jun 2017	New Fields in dove.txt file
31 May 2017	New Dove Stewards
22 Mar 2017	New Dove Stewards needed
10 Mar 2017	*Is your* tower info incorrect?**
18 Feb 2017	pNBR submissions: more (for yahoo users)
11 Feb 2017	pNBR submissions re-enabled
21 Jan 2017	pNBR submissions
7 Jan 2017	Lost pNBR submissions
31 Dec 2016	2017 Greetings
25 Nov 2016	Completely there?
24 Nov 2016	Problem resolved ... well almost
24 Oct 2016	Shropshire Assn URLs
17 Oct 2016	Church postcodes
13 Aug 2016	WYorks+Dales >> Leeds
30 Jun 2016	No reply?
24 May 2016	Holidays
14 May 2016	*CC Meeting: Dove* Report**
3 May 2016	Guild / Association websites
9 Mar 2016	Updates / Corrections
2 Mar 2016	Milestone
4 Jan 2016	A reminder regarding updates
25 Dec 2015	John Ketteringham RIP
24 Dec 2015	Christmas 2015
22 Dec 2015	iOS In-App Purchase on Sale
20 Dec 2015	W&P URLs
31 Oct 2015	Old Concert Pitch (revised)
10 Oct 2015	Upgrade to iOS app
17 Aug 2015	URLs quoted in Edn 10
15 Jul 2015	Holidays
5 Jul 2015	Diameters and Canon Information
2 Jul 2015	World map - update
2 Jul 2015	World Map on Home page
7 Jun 2015	Perth towers
2 Jun 2015	Alternative Place Name of London
29 Mar 2015	Postcodes
28 Mar 2015	Deleted tower URLs
9 Feb 2015	Problem hopefully overcome
8 Feb 2015	A Problem Day, Today
2 Jan 2015	Information for *Dove*
24 Dec 2014	Christmas 2014 and New Year
16 Nov 2014	Dove App for iOS
6 Nov 2014	Very Old Bells
25 Oct 2014	Frame material
14 Oct 2014	John Martin, Worcester
20 Sep 2014	Dove App and iOS 8
12 Sep 2014	Africa
10 Sep 2014	Calling James Mulford / Milford
5 Sep 2014	Bell Founders page
23 Aug 2014	Ringing Roadshow
15 Aug 2014	Problem resolved
11 Aug 2014	Problems exacerbated
21 Jul 2014	Problems
20 Jun 2014	Holidays
3 Jun 2014	Latest Joker
20 May 2014	Submitting Information to us
19 May 2014	Requested information
27 Apr 2014	ANZAB URLs updated
20 Apr 2014	Diocesan Changes in Yorkshire
6 Apr 2014	Dove Updates
17 Mar 2014	Bell Founders page
4 Mar 2014	Have you noticed?
23 Dec 2013	Inscription Bands
23 Dec 2013	Christmas and New Year
19 Dec 2013	Toilet Facilities
9 Dec 2013	More on Postcodes
3 Dec 2013	Postcodes Clearly Valued
2 Dec 2013	Postcode unnecessary?
10 Nov 2013	Dove and Twitter
16 Oct 2013	Listed Building Grade (more)
24 Sep 2013	Listed Building Grade
24 Aug 2013	Dove Updates
20 Aug 2013	URLs for Warwickshire Towers
18 Aug 2013	Andrew Higson
12 Aug 2013	Dove now tweets
5 Aug 2013	John Baldwin is ...
29 Jul 2013	For Fund Raisers
17 Jun 2013	Are you the right person?
31 May 2013	Times Move On
18 May 2013	Availability of dove.txt file
12 May 2013	Statistics webpage
13 Apr 2013	Former News Items
7 Apr 2013	Provisional Frame Layouts
1 Apr 2013	An Enquiry, please (not an ’April fool’)?
16 Feb 2013	Projects
19 Jan 2013	For you to check . . .
14 Jan 2013	Bellframes by Chris Pickford
24 Dec 2012	Christmas 2012 and New Year
18 Dec 2012	Partials no longer visible
1 Dec 2012	Partial tones (see 15 June 2012 item)
22 Nov 2012	Practice Night info during restoration work
20 Oct 2012	Restoration Work Under Way
1 Oct 2012	*Useless or oti* ?**
25 Sep 2012	Wrong practice information
24 Sep 2012	Missing tenor note
10 Aug 2012	John Baldwin is ...
28 Jul 2012	Please note ...
16 Jul 2012	A noticeable milestone
18 Jun 2012	Submissions temporarily suspended
15 Jun 2012	Partial Tones
24 May 2012	Cookies
18 May 2012	VAT petition closed
10 May 2012	Mary Bliss, RIP
29 Apr 2012	Dove 10 available
19 Apr 2012	Edn10 now printed
7 Apr 2012	Loos
3 Apr 2012	VAT on alterations to listed churches
17 Mar 2012	Dove data frozen during Edn10 preparation
10 Mar 2012	Dove’s Guide for iPhone released
7 Mar 2012	Cut-off date postponed (by 1 week)
2 Mar 2012	Removal of entries
24 Feb 2012	Dove Edn10 cut-off date: 9 March
13 Feb 2012	Edition 10 - final call
11 Feb 2012	Lengthy Restorations
23 Dec 2011	Christmas 2011 and New Year
16 Dec 2011	Church Bells of Somerset
21 Nov 2011	Church Bells of Somerset (G W Massey)
16 Sep 2011	John Baldwin is ...
13 Aug 2011	John Baldwin is ...
5 Aug 2011	Update queries or errors
31 Jul 2011	Possible E-mail Problems
7 Jul 2011	Updating facility interruption
13 Jun 2011	Ron, OBE
15 May 2011	Dove updating: a short break
9 May 2011	Founder/date Misattribution?
27 Apr 2011	pNBR submissions
15 Apr 2011	Church Bells of Somerset
22 Mar 2011	Edition 10
22 Feb 2011	Christchurch NZ tower wrecked by earthquake
3 Feb 2011	UK mapping
25 Jan 2011	Tower URLs
30 Dec 2010	Last call for 2010 updates
23 Dec 2010	Christmas 2010 and the New Year
5 Nov 2010	Mapping
10 Oct 2010	Warning: lock up your bells
4 Oct 2010	Alternatives
30 Sep 2010	Tower position accuracy
29 Sep 2010	A (slightly revised) plea
6 Jul 2010	Problems resolved
3 Jul 2010	Problems
1 Jun 2010	Frame Details
14 Apr 2010	In case you missed it ...
27 Mar 2010	Searching the pNBR
28 Feb 2010	Diocese naming
11 Feb 2010	Have you noticed ...
10 Feb 2010	Peter Davies
13 Jan 2010	Doncaster headed bells
1 Jan 2010	Tower URLs
21 Dec 2009	Christmas 2009
16 Dec 2009	? Up to Date ?
12 Dec 2009	Lest there be any doubt
1 Dec 2009	Silence broken ...
28 Nov 2009	Dovemaster Silence
16 Nov 2009	Has YOUR submission been correctly entered?
16 Oct 2009	Dove data in Layar Reality Browser
16 Oct 2009	Loughborough News
19 Sep 2009	Developments at Loughborough
13 Sep 2009	Bellframe details
8 Sep 2009	Help facility
30 Jul 2009	Mapping Link: Multimap
12 Jul 2009	Bellframe Information
23 Jun 2009	More pNBR details
22 Jun 2009	Non-UK Distances
29 May 2009	SatNav Destinations
23 Apr 2009	pNBR Updates
21 Apr 2009	Bell Founders
31 Mar 2009	Welded Bells
17 Jan 2009	Coverage Statistics
7 Jan 2009	County Lists and Tables
22 Dec 2008	Christmas 2008 and the New Year
2 Nov 2008	Re-countification
14 Oct 2008	Metric Dove
13 Oct 2008	Re-recountification
6 Oct 2008	Bouncing acknowledgements
26 Sep 2008	A Milestone
7 Sep 2008	Final call for comments
31 Aug 2008	Search Results
7 Aug 2008	Editing pNBR Bell Diameters
14 Jul 2008	Slight Recountification
23 May 2008	Emergencies in the Tower
6 May 2008	Has your tower a simulator?
9 Mar 2008	New ISP; new URL for Dove
8 Feb 2008	Practice Nights
20 Dec 2007	Christmas and New Year
17 Nov 2007	Affiliations
10 Nov 2007	Occasional pNBR submission loss
7 Oct 2007	The home straight!
4 Oct 2007	pNBR submissions ...
9 Jul 2007	Countdown accelerates
7 Jul 2007	Countdown continues ...
11 Jun 2007	Tue PN
5 Jun 2007	Countdown
10 May 2007	Missing Details
6 May 2007	Overseas updates
22 Apr 2007	Tip: Creating custom POI files
9 Apr 2007	Favourites - enhanced
2 Apr 2007	DoveID changes
30 Mar 2007	A new Founder
23 Feb 2007	Favourites - a new Facility
29 Jan 2007	Frequently Repeated Responses
29 Dec 2006	Searches
24 Dec 2006	Greetings
12 Dec 2006	Absence of D = Presence of M
4 Dec 2006	GAD’s NBR spreadsheets
20 Nov 2006	Another Spreadsheet: Leics
10 Nov 2006	pNBR Additions from Sussex
28 Oct 2006	Further guidance on submissions
3 Oct 2006	SatNav Destinations
12 Sep 2006	Up from Zummerzet
7 Sep 2006	Amending p-NBR data
29 Aug 2006	Mapping North American towers
8 Jul 2006	No acknowledgement ?
5 Jul 2006	Extra Staffs & W Mids data
3 Jul 2006	More spreadsheet data
27 Jun 2006	Pennington bells in SW peninsula
13 Jun 2006	Monitoring Contributions
13 Jun 2006	Another boost for the proto-NBR
17 May 2006	Google Maps Update - revised
4 May 2006	Google Maps update
3 May 2006	proto-NBR submission ...
1 May 2006	Link to Felstead peal database
24 Apr 2006	Non-UK towers: positional info
6 Apr 2006	POIs Improved in Google Earth
18 Mar 2006	Channel Is Grid Refs Refined
6 Mar 2006	POI Downloads Bugfix
15 Feb 2006	UK Grid Ref updating
13 Feb 2006	Mapping now printer friendly

Thursday 30 September 2010

Regular users of Dove may have noticed that the accuracy of our English tower positions has improved over the recent past. We thank Anne Sladen for this careful work and which continues with the remaining others and which are not yet competely spot on the bell tower itself.